Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Smith

There's much more freedom on the page. You can invoke obscure things that, in a movie, an exec will take out to make it palatable to the mainstream.

Tommy Franks

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

The public is being ripped off in the name of freedom of information.

Corazon Aquino

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Colin Powell

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Damien Hirst

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Adlai E. Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adolf Hitler

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitler

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Aeschylus

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Albert Einstein

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alex Comfort

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Aldous Huxley

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Albert Pike

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Alexander Herzen

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.